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Helena Helmersson: Know the first female CEO of Swedish retail clothing company H&M
Helena Helmersson is working with a vision to transform the fashion industry. She began her career at H&M in 1997 as a Business controller, before she served as the section manager of various departments in the buying office. For 8 years she took care of the Children's Department, Lady's Department, and the baby's department at the Buying office. Later, in October 2006, Helmersson went to Bangladesh and worked as H&M's production manager at Dhaka.
Salil Parekh: Know the CEO and MD of Infosys
In May 2022, the company announced that its Board of Directors has reappointed Salil Parekh as CEO and MD of Infosys from July 1, 2022, to March 31, 2027. Salil Parekh holds global experience in the IT service industry for over 30 years. He has a strong track record of driving digital transformation for enterprises, executing business turnarounds, and managing successful acquisitions. Before working at Infosys, Salil was a member of the Group Executive Board at Capgemini.
Daniel Ek: Know the co-founder and CEO of Spotify
Daniel Ek started his career at a very young age when he was just 13 years old. Daniel, having a keen interest in Technology, started making websites for clients from his home, and charged the first client $100 and the second $200 for their websites. Gradually, he started to charge $5,000 per website. In an attempt to expand his business, Daniel started recruiting students from his class to work on the websites from the school computer lab by bribing them with video games.
Pieter Elbers: Know the CEO of India’s Preferred Airline, IndiGo
Pieter, is a Dutch airline executive who earlier worked as the president and CEO of the Netherlands' flag carrier airline, KLM. In 1992, Elbers started his career with KLM as supervisor of aircraft loading at the Schiphol hub. Later he held many managerial positions at KLM in 'The Netherlands' and abroad for six years. He worked as general/sales manager in Japan, Greece, and Italy.
Mark Schneider: Know the CEO of Nestle
Mark began his career in the late 1980s, he worked as a group finance director for Gehe UK plc. It is a pharmaceutical wholesale and retail distributor, in Coventry, England. He held several senior executive positions at Gehe's majority shareholder, Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH. In 2000 he was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Gehe UK plc. Within a year, he joined Fresenius Group and worked as Chief Financial Officer(CFO) at Fresenius Medical care from 2001 -2003.
Rajneet Kohli: Meet the newly appointed CEO of Britannia
Before Britannia, Ranjeet served as the president and chief business officer at Domino's India, run by food service company Jubilant FoodWorks. Rajneet Kohli began his career in 1997, by working with Color Steels Inc, UK, as a Contract Accounts Administrator. At the company, he managed key sales accounts of French clients, based out of the UK office. In 1998, he joined RR Financial Consulting Limited and took the responsibility for managing and building relationships with corporates.
Sanjiv Mehta: Know the Chairman and MD of Hindustan Unilever Limited
Sanjiv Mehta also leads the South Asia cluster business for HUL. He is associated with Unilever for around 28 years and for the last 19 years, has led the business of the company in different parts of the world. Mehta began his career in 1983 with Union Carbide. He had been a part of the crisis management team that worked on the Bhopal Gas tragedy in 1984. In 1998, Mehta joined the Unilever Bangladesh board as its commercial director.
Stephan Winkelmann: Know the President and CEO of Lamborghini
Stephan began his career in 1991 at the German financial services provider MLP. However, only in 1993 he entered the automotive industry, working first in Munich as a sales representative for Mercedes-Benz. From 1994 to 2004 he worked for Fiat and Alfa Romeo, Lancia, and Fiat Professional, respectively. He worked as head of Alfa Romeo Germany, then as head of marketing for Fiat's southern region.
Kalyan Krishnamurthy: Know the CEO of Flipkart
Before joining Flipkart, Krishnamurthy reportedly worked in eBay’s Asia finance operations for nearly seven years. He also worked for Tiger Global as its finance director in 2011. An e-commerce veteran, Kalyan was also a part of Procter and Gamble in its Supply Chain Finance business. In 2013, Krishnamurthy joined Flipkart and worked as its interim chief financial officer. Later, he had a bitter fallout with Sachin Bansal - co-founder of Flipkart, and Kalyan abruptly left the company.
Evan Spiegel: Know the co-founder and CEO of Snapchat
Evan, with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown, created Snapchat Inc., in 2011. As of August 2022, Evan has a net worth of $2.8B. Evan began his career at Red Bull, where he worked as an unpaid intern in sales, later he worked as a paid intern for a biomedical company, as a careers instructor in Cape Town, and at Intuit on the TxtWeb project. In 2011, as a Stanford University student, Spiegel proposed an app with ephemeral messaging as a product design class project.
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